Part of the Volm crew, a scene that will likely be in the new family business show. |
Volm Companies help launch new family business television program June 18, 2009 Family Inc., an new television series that profiles successful family-owned companies will debut Saturday and Sunday on television stations across the Upper Midwest, and one of the first businesses to be featured is Antigo’s Volm Companies.
It is part of the expanding palate of shows produced by Discover Mediaworks.
The series, featuring Volm, will debut Saturday and Sunday on television stations throughout the Wisconsin and in Duluth, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Rockford, Ill.
In the Milwaukee area, it will air on WITI-TV at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday and again at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 28.
Each episode will feature four diverse companies. Among the highlights of the first episode, in addition to Volm, will be profiles on: Plymouth-based Sargento Foods; Cleary Building Corporation, of Verona and Onalaska-based Festival Foods.
In addition, viewers are sure to appreciate the contributions of renowned family-business consultant Dean R. Fowler, Ph.D., the author of “Love, Power, Money: Family Business Between the Generations’’ (book) and “Successful Habits of Family Business Successors’’ (CD), who serves as host of the show.
"Family businesses make for great stories," says Mark Rose, president and chief executive officer of Discover Mediaworks. "They involve parents, children, siblings — everyone sharing a dream that ultimately shapes their families, their industries and their communities. We're really excited that Family Inc. will be sharing these stories."
Rose says that his interest in developing Family Inc. grew from collaborating with some of Wisconsin's signature family-owned companies — and from running his own family-owned business. Discover Mediaworks grew from a company founded by Rose's father, the late Dick Rose, nearly 30 years ago.
"I'm so pleased that these profiles are not only going to bring the story of a family's business to a wide audience, but will serve as a stand-alone legacy that the company can distribute and have for posterity," Rose says.
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